Awning type window structure



Aug. 25, 1959 T. HAUCK AWNING TYPE WINDOW STRUCTURE Filed Jan. 4, 1954 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 i 1: a; t

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i I /2 L 5 INVENTOR Theodore Haac/o BY A m mr 72 -A oRYs v Aug. 25, 1959 T. HAUCK AWNING TYPE WINDOW STRUCTURE 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 24 A. 5 9 1 2 4 I 4 0 m 4 J3 A a d 55: 4 e H I F 2 W 4 k wa m mm A ATTORN Aug. 25, 1959 1-. HAUCK 2,901,065

AWNING TYPE WINDOW STRUCTURE Filed Jan. 4, 1954 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 INVENTOR I Theod'o re Hauch B r W I ATTOR E Aug. 25, 1959 T. HAUCK AWNING TYPE WINDOW STRUCTURE Filed Jan. 4, 1954 4 sheets-Sheet 4 INVENTOR k oclore Haws/0 l4 ATTOR Y United States Patent AWNING TYPE WINDOW STRUCTURE Theodore Hauck, Bellmore, N.Y., assignor to General Bronze Corporation, Garden City, N.Y.

Application January 4, 1954, Serial No. 401,988

13 Claims. (Cl. 18967) This invention relates to an awning window comprising a plurality of sashes arranged in vertical series.

A11 object of the invention resides in so constructing the window that the lower sash may be unlocked and partially opened prior to the unlocking and opening of all or any of the remaining sashes to eflectuate a controllable opening, closing and ventilation.

A further object of the invention resides in providing the sashes with locking devices that automatically lock the upper sashes while the lower is still partially open and thereafter lock the lower sash after it has been.

completely closed.

A further object of the invention resides in providing a window of the character referred to wherein the sashes are moved to open and closed positions and locked and unlocked by means of a simple and continuous movement of a single operator.

Other objects and the advantages of the invention will become apparent as the description of the embodiment disclosed in the drawing progresses.

In the drawings:

' Figure l is a front view of a window embodying the invention;

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view on line 2-2 of Figure l, partly broken away and illustrating the lower sash and one of a plurality of upper sashes, both being closed;

Figure 2A is an enlarged fragmentary section showing the relation of the control member and the abutment on a slide when the two are to move in unison;

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view similar to Figure 2 of the window with the lowest sash partly open.

Figure 3A is a view similar to Figure 2A but showing the control member and abutment in the positions that they occupy when they are capable of independent movements;

Figure 4 is a view similar to that of Figure 3 but showing both the lower and upper sashes open;

Figure 5 is a vertical sectional view on line 55 of Figure 2 looking in the direction of the arrows;

Figure 5A is an enlarged horizontal sectional view on line 5A5A of Figure 5 looking in the direction of the arrows.

, Figure 6 is a vertical sectional view on line 6--6 of Figure 5 looking in the direction of the arrows;

Figure 7 is a sectional view on line 7-7 of Figure 5 looking in the direction of the arrows;

Figure 8 is a sectional view on line 8--8 of Figure 5 looking in the direction of the arrows;

Figure 9 is a horizontal sectional view on line 9-9 of Figure 8 looking in the direction of the arrows;

Figure 10 is a vertical section on the line 1010 of Figure 1 lookin in the direction of the arrows; and

Figure 11 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 11--11 of Figure 10.

The awning type window illustrated in the'drawing comprises a header 10, jambs 12 and a sill 14 which 2,901,065 Patented Aug. 25, 1959 swinging movements a plurality of sashes, the lowest sash being indicated by the reference numeral 16 and the upper sashes by the reference numerals 18, 20 and 22.

The header 10 is provided with a longitudinally extending horizontal chamber 24 which is substantially coextensive with the header and the sill 14 is provided with a corresponding chamber 26 that extends horizontally and longitudinally of the sill and is substantially coextensive therewith. The jarnbs are provided with chambers 28 which extend longitudinally thereof and vertically substantially coextensively with the jambs.

Within each jamb chamber 28 a vertically extending slide 30 is mounted for movements vertically upwardly and downwardly. Each of these slides is substantially U-shaped in cross-section and rides in its movements upon rollers 32 that are mounted on bearings 34 carried by the adjacent jamb.

The lowest sash 16 is provided with brackets 36, one being secured rigidly to each vertical stile. These brackets have olfset portions 38 which terminate in projections 40 the faces of wihch are substantially parallel with the adjacent faces of the slides as shown in Figure 8. The brackets 36 are pivotally mounted on the slides 30 by means of pintles 42 which extend through slots 44 in the slides 30, the latter making possible relative vertical movements between the slides and the pintles.

To each of the brackets 36 a stay bar 46 is pivoted at 48. These stay bars are also pivoted at their lower ends at 50 to the jambs of the window frame.

At each side of the lowest sash a locking element comprising a plate 52 and a flange 54 is rigidly secured to the slide 30 and a complemental locking element comprising a plate 56 and a flange 58 is rigidly secured to the adjacent vertical stile of the sash.

At the upper end of the lowest sash 16 on each side thereof a control member 60 is rigidly secured to the portion 40 of the bracket 36 and is provided with an arcuate abutment flange 62, the center of curvature being substantially that of the axis of the adjacent pintle 42. This flange 62 on each of the control members terminates in a shoulder 64 as shown in Figure 9 providing,

in effect, an opening 66 beyond the flange.

Each of the slides 30 is provided with an elongated abutment 68 which is rigid with the slides and moves upwardly and downwardly therewith in a path of movement that intersects the path of movement of the adjacent flange 62.

The construction of the upper sashes 18, 20 and 22 is substantially the same as that of the lowest sash. They are provided with similar brackets and stay bars, the

* 1 latter being indicated at 46 in Figure 5-, and with locking plates which are indicated in Figure 5 by the reference numerals 52' and 56. These plates are similar in construction to the plates 52 and 56 and [are located adjacent the lower ends of the sashes. Each of the upper sashes is provided with control members which corators are indicated generally in Figure l by the reference numeral 70 and may be of many different construc- 2 l have illustrated an operatorwhich comprises broad j tions which are capable of accomplishing vertical upward and downward movements of the slides and maintaining themv in various positions.

ly'speaking a substantial non-compressible and non-extensible wire 72 which is somewhat in the form of a Bowden wire and extends through a tubular housing 74, the lowerportion of which is permanentlysecured, at 76, to-the window frame and the upper portion of which.is capable of telescopically moving on the lower-portion. This upper portionis securedto a bracket 78 whichin turn 'i's secured at 80 to the'adjacent slide .30. The wine 72 -i=s provided at'its upper end with adjusting and locking nuts -82.

These wires 72 extend longitudinally within the sill chamber .26 as indicated in Figures 1 and and :each together with the 'tube in which it is mounted, terminates short of the opposite jamb .as for instance -at- 8'-"i and 86 in Figure 1. These wires 72 extend through a casing .38 mounted within the sill-chamber 26 and are provided within said casing with abutments 90 which are engageable by the projections 92 011 an-operatordisc94 which-is rigid witha worm gear 96. This :gear'is engaged by a worm 98 which may be actuated byan operator handle 190.

When the lowest sash -16 and the upper sashes 18, 20 and 22 are in the positions shown in 'Figure 2,-all-of the sashes willbe closed and locked in'their closed positions against the weather stripping. At this time the flanges 54 and 58 of the locking members 52 and 56 will :be engaged as shown in Figure 2 as will also bethe corresponding locking members for the upper-sashes :as:shown at 52' and 56 in Figure 5. The pintles 42 of the lowest sash will be at the lower end-s of the slots-44 and the pintles 42, of the upper sashes will be atthe lower .ends of the slots 44'.

The opening of the sashes may be accomplished through the medium of the handle 100.

When the handle is turned in one directiontheworm 98 will, through the worm gear 96, rotate the :disc .94 with the result that the horizontal portion of'each of the wires within the sill chamber will be IHOVfidiILW'dIdly away from the jamb in which its vertical portion is housed and the vertical portion of the wire will be moved downwardly. Because of its connection with the slide 38- through the bracket 78 the slide will'be moved downwardly. As the slide moves downwardly the looking plate 52 moves with it until the flange 54imovesiout of its overlapping relation with the flange 5'8 on the complemental plate 56 but the corresponding locking plates for the upper sashes will remain in overlapped, locking relation.

As the slides move downwardly the abutments 68 move downwardly with the slides since they are carried by the slides. This downward movement of the slides is permitted by the slots 44 and 44' in the slides .30 until the lowest abutments 68 move downwardly beyond the shoulder6'4 of thelowest control members 60. The sashes will beprevented from having any pivotal movement but the length of each of these-abutments .is'su'ch that the abutments pass beyond the path of movement of the shoulders 64 substantially simultaneously with the disengagement of the locking plates 52 and :56 of the lowest sash. When the disengagement of'these plates-and the passage of the abutments 68 beyond the paths of movement of the flange 62 and the shoulders 64 thereof occur, the lowest sash will then be free'to'move on the pintles 42 as a pivot. At this time the upper ends of the slots 44 in the slide 30 will have reached and engaged the pintles 42 so that further movement of the slides downwardly under the influence of the operating handle 100 and its connected wire 72 will movethe pintles downwardly and because of the presence-of the pivoted stay bars 46 the lowest sash will be swung outwardly about the pintles 42 as a pivot. However, when this movement of the lower sash 16 begins the upper ends of the slots 44 will not yet have contacted the adjacent pintles 42 and the abutments adjacent the upper sashes will not have completely passed beyond theshoulders on the control member 60'. Neither will the upper locking members 52' and 56 have passed out of engagement with each other. As a consequence the lowest sash swings to a partially open position before any one of the upper sashes begins to open and before any one of the upper sashes is unlocked either adjacent its pivot or adjacent its lower end.

hen, however, the downward movement of the slides 30 is continued under the influence of the operating handle and connected members, the lowest sash continues to open and when the upper ends of the slots 44 engage the pintles 42 the adjacent abutments will have passed completely out of the path of travel of the flanges on the control members 69' and the locking plates 52' and 56 will have passed out of their overlapping relation to each other so that the continued downward movement of the slides 3%) will move the pintles 42 downwardly and, because of thepresence of the stay bars will cause the upper sashes to swing outwardly.

When the sashes are in the open positions as indicated in Figure 4 of the drawing, the flanges 62 on the lowest control members 60 will lie in the paths of upward travel of the abutments 68 and the corresponding flanges on the upper control members will similarly lie in the paths of travel-of the upper abutments with the result that any upward-movement of the slides 30, so long as this relationship .exists, will result in the upward movements of the pintles 42 and the corresponding upper pintles 42' while the pintles remain in the same relationship ito the slots 44 and 44', that is to say, while the pintles are at'the upper ends of the'slots. This upward movement of the slides, through the stay bars, will cause the sashes to move pivotally toward their closed positions.

The upper sashes will close first and the lowest sash will remain partly open after the upper sashes have .completely closed. Furthermore upward movement of the slides will cause the lowest sash to close.

When the upper sashes have closed and the lowest sash remains partly open the lower ends of the slots 44 will not have reached the pintles 42' with the result that'the slides may move independently of the upper sashes. However, and at this time, the upper abutments will engage the shoulders on the control members 60 and the upper locking plates 52' and 56' will engage each other. Thus the locking of the upper sashes will be accomplished before the lowest sashis completely closed. The relation of the abutments 68', the flanges 62' and the pintles 42' of the upper sashes (and of the corresponding elements of the lower sash) is such that the abutments engage the shoulders 64 before the locking elements begin their engagement. Thus the upper sashes will be locked against outward swinging in their closed but pre-locked positions.

As the operating handle continues to move the slides 30, the lowest sash will be pivotally moved inwardly because of the engagement of the pintles 42 with the upper ends of the slots 44 and, because of the engagement of the abutments 68 with the flanges 62 on the control members 60, the slides and the pivots of the lowest sash will move upwardly together until the lowest sash is in its closed position. Atthis time the abutment 68 will be in line with the openings 66 in the control members 60 and the slides will be free-to move upwardly independently of the sashes. As they so move the flanges 54 and 58 on the locking'plates 52 and 56 on the lowest sash will be moved into engagement with each other,*this movement-being permitted because of the difference in lengths of the slots '44 and 44.

his to beobserved that the distance between the lowest'pin 42 and the upper end of the slot 44 is less than the distance between the upper pins 42' and the-upper ends of the slots 44'. his for this'reason that the lowest sash is givenan early opening and a delayed closing.

'Should it be -desired to vary the relationship-of the in Add opening of the upper sashes with the lowest sash or with each other this may be accomplished by a variation of the lengths of the slots in the slides above the pins.

What I claim is:

1. In a window construction, a frame comprising header, sill and jambs, slides mounted in and movable vertically in the jambs, a vertical series of sashes extending between said slides and pivotally mounted thereon on horizontal pivots for vertical swinging movements to open and closed positions, stay bars pivotally secured to said sashes at points spaced from said pivots and to said jambs, means adjacent the pivot of each of said sashes for locking the same adjacent its pivot against pivotal movement, means remote from the pivot of each of said sashes for locking the same remote from its pivot against pivotal movement, each of said locking means comprising locking elements on the sash and complemental locking elements on the slides, means operable through movements of said slides for engaging and disengaging said complemental locking elements with each other to cause the interengagement of the complemental locking elements for the lowest sash to occur subsequent to the interengagement of the complemental locking elements for the upper sashes and the disengagement of the locking elements for the lowest sash to occur prior to the disengagement of the locking elements for the upper sashes.

2. The combination of elements recited in claim 1 wherein means is provided for opening the lowest sash on its supporting pivots and subsequently opening the upper sashes on their supporting pivots.

3. The combination of elements recited in claim 2 wherein said means for opening said sashes also constitutes means for closing the upper sashes prior to the closing of the lowest sash and for subsequently closing the lowest sash and for locking said sashes in said order of closing.

4. The combination of elements recited in claim 3 wherein there is provided common means for actuating all of said opening and closing and said locking means.

5. The combination of elements recited in claim 1 wherein the said slides are movable vertically relatively to the sash pivots.

6. The combination of elements recited in claim 5 wherein means is provided for securing said slides against said relative movements.

7. In a metallic window construction, a frame comprising header, sill and jambs, slides mounted in and movable vertically in the jambs, a vertical series of sashes extending between said slides and pivotally mounted thereon on horizontal pivots for vertical swinging movements to open and closed positions, stay bars pivotally secured to said sashes at points spaced from said pivots and to said jambs, said slides having vertical slots therein through which said pivots extend for vertical movements relative to each other and for vertical movements as a unit, an arcuate flange rigid with each sash adjacent each pivot and substantially concentric with the axes of said pivots, abutments rigid with each slide adjacent each of said flanges, said flanges lying in the paths of movement of said abutments in one position and lying out of said paths of movement in another position, whereby upon movements of said slides, when said flanges are in said first mentioned positions, said abutments will engage said flanges to cause said slides and said pivots to move as a unit, and upon movements of said slides, whep said flanges are in said second mentioned positions, said abutments will move vertically free of said flanges to cause said slides to move independently of said pivots.

8. In a metallic window construction, a frame comprising header, sill and jambs, slides mounted in and movable vertically in the jambs, a vertical series of sashes extending between said slides and pivotally mounted thereon on horizontal pivots for vertical swinging movements to open and closed positions, stay bars pivotally secured to said sashes at points spaced from said pivots and to said jambs, said slides having vertical slots there in through which said pivots extend. for vertical movements relative to each other and for vertical movements as a unit, an arcuate flange rigid with each sash adjacent each pivot and substantially concentric with the axes of said pivots, abutments rigid with each slide adjacent each of said flanges, said flanges lying in the paths of movement of said abutments in one position and lying out of said paths of movement in another position, whereby upon movements of said slides, when said flanges are in said first mentioned positions, said abutments will engage said flanges to cause said slides and said pivots to move as a unit, and upon movements of said slides, when said flanges are in said second mentioned positions, said abutments will move vertically free of said flanges to cause said slides to move independently of said pivots, locking elements on said sashes and on said slides interengageable upon movements of said slides independently of said pivots and when said flanges are in said last mentioned positions.

9. The combination of elements recited in claim 8 wherein the distance between the pivots for the lowest sash and the upper ends of said slots into which said pivots extend is less than the distance between said pivots for said upper sashes and the upper ends of said slots into which they extend.

10. In a window construction, a frame comprising vertical jambs, slides mounted in each of said jambs for vertical sliding movements, at least two sashes extending between and pivotally mounted on said slides on horizontal pivots, stay bars extending between and pivoted to each of said sashes and to said frame, said slides and said horizontal pivots being connected together for relative vertical movements into first and second relationships, cooperating separable fastener elements on said sashes and said slides adjacent said horizontal pivots for interengagement when said first relationship is existent and for disengagement when said second relationship is existent, and means for moving said slides to create said first and second relationships selectively, said separable fastener elements comprising abutments on and vertically movable with said slides and shoulders on and movable pivotally with said sashes into and out of the paths of movement of said abutments.

11. In a window construction, a frame comprising vertical jambs, slides mounted in each of said jambs for vertical sliding movements, at least two sashes extending between and pivotally mounted on said slides on horizontal pivots, stay bars extending between and pivoted to each of said sashes and said frame, said slides and said horizontal pivots being connected together for relative vertical movements, first locking means for each of said sashes adjacent its horizontal pivot, second locking means remote from said pivot, said first locking means comprising an abutment on said slide and movable vertically therewith, and a cooperating shoulder on a said sash and movable pivotally therewith into and out of the path of movement of said abutment, said second locking means comprising an element carried by said sash and a complemental element carried by said slide and engageable with said first element upon the sliding movement of said slide in one direction and disenga geable therefrom upon sliding movement of said slide in the other direction, and means for moving said slide vertically in both directions.

12. In a window construction, a frame comp-rising vertical jambs, a sash pivoted between said jambs and comprising upper, lower and side stiles, vertical slides mounted on said jambs and slidable vertically in respect thereto, and having vertical slots therein, pivot pins carried by the upper stile of said sash and extending into and rotatable in said slots, said slots being vertically movable with respect to said pivot pins, an elongated abutment fixed on one of said slides adjacent but spaced from the adjacent pivot pin, an arcuate cam fixed with relation to said sash and engageable with the upper end of the adjacent abutment on said slide in .an open position of said sash .and having an opening at one end thereof to permit-theadjacent abutment'on the slide to pass therethrough Without engagement With said cam when said sash is in closed position whereby said slide and said pivot pins may move as a unit when said sash is open andisaid slide may move independently of the pivot pins when said sash is in closed position, -complernental fastener elements-carried by said sash and said slide and adapted to interengageand disengage when said slide moves independently of said pivot pins and stay bars pivotally connected to said sashesremote from said pivot pins and to said frame.

'13. The combination of elements recited in claim 12 wherein the length of the abutment adjacent one slot is substantiallyiequal to the length of said slot.

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